It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.